Was Dakota Meyer's Medal of Honor attacked because of BAE suit?

Dec-19-2011 16:50
Marine Commandant Defends Medal of Honor Recipient Dakota Meyer

Tim King Salem-News.com
Everything about Dakota Meyer's service was honorable; and then everything went to hell in a handbasket after he reported BAE's attempt to sell military hardware to Pakistan.

(SALEM) - A McClatchy Newspaper reporter alleges in a series of articles, that the government beefed up the story of U.S. Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer, who was awarded the Medal of Honor in September. This is not sitting well with Marines, particularly the top Marine officer, the Commandant, Gen. James F. Amos.

While McClatchy has done great work in the past revealing environmental problems affecting Marines and former Marines who served at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, this new allegation follows the decision of a British military contracting firm, BAE Systems, to trash Dakota Meyer's character, calling this amazing American 'mentally unstable' and suggesting that he has an 'alcohol' problem.

Meyer blew the whistle on BAE Systems after discovering that they were planning to sell high-power sniper rifle scopes to the Pakistani military. As I detailed in my last article about Dakota Meyer, he spent significant time in the Kunar province of Afghanistan, right on the border with Pakistan. With regard to the potentially problematic nature of supplying weapon components of this nature to the Pakistanis, this former Marine non-commissioned officer just might know more than most people alive.

Everything about Dakota Meyer's service was honorable by all accounts; and then everything went to hell in a handbasket after he reported BAE's attempt to sell military hardware to Pakistan. It's a hell of a coincidence, and if the McClatchy account were true, why on earth did they wait to release their findings? Were they not aware of their own story prior to the awarding of the medal? At a time when the country is broken, would that not have been better to address sooner, rather than later?

Regardless of what they may admit, the media trashing of Dakota Meyer did not happen until after BAE Systems turned against him and launched their character defamation campaign.
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